Monday, May 30, 2016

Finding, Service and Tornado's

Area: Lenexa, KansasCompanion: Elder Bradley

Hello Everyone!!

This has been a really great week! We were able to find several new investigators and actually teach some lessons this week which is always nice! Their names are Lexi, Mahogany, Wolfred, Edgar, and Larry. We have been taking out the priest age young men in the ward here with us for a couple hours during the week so they can experience a little bit of all missionary work and they seemed to really enjoy it and because of that we were blessed with a lot of finding and teaching opportunities.

We have been trying to find new ways to talk to people in this area and one of the ways we are trying is to go and walk around at the parks that are in our area. There are always a lot of people fishing and it is really easy to talk to someone about fishing and the conversation usually quickly leads to why we are dressed in a white shirt and tie and out walking around at a park, works pretty well! There are some really cool structures around this part of town, I'll send some pictures and videos. We also saw a herring catching some fish which was pretty sweet! Then we got down poured on out of nowhere which tends to happen out here quite a bit because the weather is so unpredictable.

There was a pretty sweet funnel cloud that formed right above where we were driving. We got out safe, but it was pretty sweet to see the clouds spinning so fast and how dark it got. The closest tornado that has touched down was about 20 miles away.

We had a fun couple service opportunities this week. One was singing in a nursing home with several other missionaries. During the opening prayer an old lady snuck up behind me and started hugging me from the back and I didn't know what to do... I just had to pry her off of me because even as I walked away she latched onto me! Then after I got her off of me she started to go for another missionary but the lady in charge was able to get her before that happened. Haha! I also got kissed on the hand by a lady that wouldn't let go of my hand... But other than that the singing went really well!

The other service opportunity We had was helping a guy clean up his duped so that he could sell it this week. We painted, cleaned, and did a little demo to get some old stuff out of there. It was a nice break and also nice to be able to get my hands dirty. Not to many people in this area have us help with anything because they are all pretty self reliant and don't want to ask for help, or they just pay someone else to come do it for them.

That's about all that happened this week! Transfers are this Thursday and we find out on Tuesday if we are leaving or not! I may or may not leave, who knows?!